Images are stepping stones that trace where the mind has been and reflect the unique vision that each of us carries through life” (author unknown).

Combining my love of travel and the exotic with my love of making images is facilitated by being able to always have a little camera in my pocket……no need for a heavy camera bag, an assortment of lenses along with all the other paraphernalia that photographers are very attached to. The work in this show is part of a collection of image made over the past two years in various locales.

When I create an image I try to project the pleasure and fascination that a certain structure, landscape, sense of place gives to me ………especially something whose original function has changed in some way and yet the remains are purposeful and wonderful on many levels. Sharing this moment with a viewer ,which can give pause and transmit this delight, is what motivates me.Making images for me is a way of life……..I can’t imagine not doing it………it’s what feeds my soul.All of the images in this show have been taken and edited with my iPhone and then transferred to my computer for final editing and printing. Each image has been printed on a fine art digital printer using archival pigment inks and paper. Each image is part of an edition of 10 .

Nina Hauser’s work is luscious when it comes to color, texture and composition.  A lifetime of looking carefully, observing her surroundings, paying attention to details many of us overlook is evident in her work.  I say ‘evident’ because her work captures images that are at once zen moments in time and visually exciting, yet, if the viewer had to break it down, and say why it worked, it would be difficult.  This visual ‘evidence’ lets the viewer know ‘hey, something’s going on here’ or ‘something has happened here’.

Hauser’s work, to me, describes memory.  We go on these amazing outings, travel – sometimes more local, sometimes to the other side of the world – and, while we might have photographs, either in hard copy or on our phones, etc., they hardly capture the feeling of being in that place.  Except, in Hauser’s photos……she comes back to her workspace and conjures memory in her studio, working on the images to bring back that feeling of wonder and awe at having seen, just for a moment, something beautiful.